Home Health Care News August 3, 2020
While home-based medical care has been shown to reduce hospitalization rates and lower costs for both homebound and non-homebound populations alike, it continues to be drastically underutilized in the current health care ecosystem.
As a result, there are millions of older Americans — especially those living in rural areas — who are going without the type of life-changing, in-home care they need.
That’s according to a new study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs.
To better understand the use of home-based medical care, a team of researchers from Mount Sinai, Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed seven years’ worth...
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